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    Israel nuclear attack on Iran: conspiracy by an oil long?

    http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Major_investment_bank_issues_warning_on_0115.html
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    ecbot down

    sorry everyone, cbot has locked you inside and swallowed the key. i think we're going to have to start calling them 'cbot dips'
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    ecbot down

    wow, always as it's breaking down. this artificial defense is getting a little absurd
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    ecbot down

    IB bulletin says ecbot halted
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    ecbot down

    can you imagine the rally if they shut down the exchanges permanently. they'd probably do it right above the stop at zero to create some support there
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    ecbot down

    its amazing how often the US markets have to be halted these days. is the situation really that brittle
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    Is the CBOT down?

    it's just their unofficial way of throwing the breaks on before a selloff starts running long stops
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    Is the CBOT down?

    lol!
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    Any able to connect to IB Sunday 7th Jan???

    logged in here, although no positions listed and acct window seems to be not working. anyone confirm?
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    Israel nuclear attack on Iran: conspiracy by an oil long?

    don't we all benefit from real economic competition, if we undermine that, we're not really a capitalist country monetary credibility has to stand on its own, independent of force
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    Israel nuclear attack on Iran: conspiracy by an oil long?

    i see what you're getting at, taking that perspective is really challenging to views in the american mainstream. the perspectives of moderate/typical iranian citizens would clarify a lot
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    Israel nuclear attack on Iran: conspiracy by an oil long?

    it was a sacrifice bat you're totally right, the china angle on iran is conspicuously absent from the discourse.
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    Israel nuclear attack on Iran: conspiracy by an oil long?

    crudely, the cold war is already taken. how about the sweet and sour war?
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    Israel nuclear attack on Iran: conspiracy by an oil long?

    i'm astonished at how strongly that reductive worldview has permeated clever minds very close to home. if someone believes that people are 'either good or evil' or that we're in the throes of a binary cultural struggle, it becomes nearly impossible to sincerely entertain the idea that our own...
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    trade ex divdend

    ic i was a little confused, it looks like that drop takes place overnight going into the ex-date i got confused this morning because the stocks in question are illiquid and the drops weren't immediately discernable within the giant opening bar spikes on em. thanks vm for clarifying
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    trade ex divdend

    in scenario 3, does the capital gain take the form of the stock price dropping by the amount of the dividend?
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    U.s. Treasury Secretary Arrested In Germany

    lol that's not to say that nefarious things don't take place. but this site and article are unsourced
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    U.s. Treasury Secretary Arrested In Germany

    I agree, the source has come up before with some very inflammatory claims that are 100% unsourced. I know it's a little silly but between the heavy use of caps, and someone named 'story' talking about the 'wanta' settlement .. it has the appearance of a joke the site claims that "Mr Story...
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    Denver vs. New Orleans

    bush has an established pattern of systematically evading the courts and there appear to be a bush or bush sr appointee behind every instance. an established pattern of similar events with 3 common attributes: 1. a conflict of interest 2. excusal from testimony 3. a family appointee
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